Epitaphy
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An epitaph (description on a gravestone) obsolete
"It is desyred that where, of long tyme agoo, in the said chapell, a knight and his wife (were) buried, and their pictures upon theym very sore worne and broken, that they may take away the pictures, and lay in the place a playn stone, with an epitaphy who is there buried, that the people may make setts and pewys, where they may more quietly serve God, and that it may less cowmber the rowme."
- 2 The art or practice of writing epitaphs.
"One or two of them are curious specimens of epitaphy."
Example
More examples"It is desyred that where, of long tyme agoo, in the said chapell, a knight and his wife (were) buried, and their pictures upon theym very sore worne and broken, that they may take away the pictures, and lay in the place a playn stone, with an epitaphy who is there buried, that the people may make setts and pewys, where they may more quietly serve God, and that it may less cowmber the rowme."
Etymology
(sense 2): From epitaph + -y.
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